Sextant instruction sought for polar navigation
A reader seeks proper instruction in celestial navigation using a sextant for Arctic expedition. Lt Commander William R Fisher of UNC Chapel Hill Naval ROTC offers to teach, has sextants and Trowbridge, and mentions the Navy wintering over program in Antarctica. Call Chapel Hill 933-1198 to arrange.
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Arctic Circle
Pole
Arctic
Navy
Antarctica
Fisher
Chapel Hill
Constitutional Q and local notes on Nixon line of succession
Reader questions presidential succession if Nixon dies or is unable to serve and about 22nd Amendment. Also asks location of Swan Quarter, NC. A reader’s social security concern about a maid’s wages prompts advice: employers may be liable for the employee share. others may be investigated by IRS.
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Bob Green
High Point Office
Internal Revenue
Angry motorist sounds off on dangerous Russell Street dip
Sound Off Tom reports being victimized by a dip on Russell Street at Wesley causing $500 in car damage including cross member and differential parts. He urges warning signs or repairs, noting a neighbor also damaged a car last year and that public works director Carl Wills should be notified.
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Tom
Russell Street
Wesley
Public Works
Carl Wills
Nixon appoints two more aides for White House staff
President elect Richard Nixon, resting on a Key Biscayne porch, named Raymond Price Jr and Patrick Buchanan Jr as White House special assistants. The two, both seasoned editorial writers, will help craft the inaugural address and legislative messages. They will be generalists active in program development and policy statements.
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Key Biscayne, Fla
Richard M. Nixon
Placid Biscayne Bay
White House
Pennsylvania
Barbara Hisenhower
Nixon
George A. Smathers
D-Fla
Miami
Ron Ziegler
Smathers
Key Biscayne
Ziegler
Raymond K. Price Jr
Patrick J. Buchanan Jr
Congress
Price
New York Herald- Tribune
Buchanan
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
The Day JFK Was Shot serial starts in The Enterprise
Jim Bishop spent over four years writing a minute by minute account of the Dallas assassination. The series opens with serialization beginning Sunday November 24. The text promises uncensored detail and includes Lyndon Johnson's sole interview on the events.
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Jim Bishop
Dallas
Lyndon Johnson
Bishop
Enterprise
NATO Creates New Security Zone In Europe And Med
NATO proclaimed a new security zone in southeast Europe and the Mediterranean and warned Moscow of grave consequences from Soviet intervention. The allies ordered a power buildup and drew up emergency defense plans for Yugoslavia Austria and Albania as NATO ministers met to review Czechoslovakia’s Aug 1968 incident.
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Brussels
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Europe
Mediterranean
Dean Rusk
NATO
Yugoslavia
Austria
Albania
Council of the Alliance
Czechoslovakia
Lonewolf
France
Moscow
Javits Would Seek Nixon to Retain Paris Peace Team
Senator Javits urged President-elect Nixon to keep at least one of the U.S. negotiators W Averell Harriman or Cyrus Vance in Paris after praising their expertise. He plans to report to Nixon promptly upon returning from a European tour and noted the value of the negotiating team's work.
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Paris
Jacob K. Javits
U.S
W. Averell Hartiman
Cyrus Vance
Richard M. Nixon
New York
Javits
United States
Nixon
Harriman
Washington
Vance
Johnson
Quiet Protest Marks Swan Quarter Desegregation Tensions
In Swan Quarter North Carolina teenagers led a peaceful Saturday protest with singing and speeches over the Hyde County desegregation plan which would close the two all Negro schools. Authorities reported no arrests or incidents as about 187 demonstrators spoke and listened to Willie Boulton and Joe Hammong of the SCLC in Atlanta.
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Heid County
Swan Quarter
N. C
WTA
Hyde County
Hoi Toid Country
Lake Mattamuskeet
Pamlico Sound
Gull Rock
Sladesville
North Carolina
Willie Boulton
Joe Hammong
SCLC
Atlanta
Nuclear Warning: Clifford cools on demonstrative nuclear use
Secretary of Defense Clark M. Clifford said he has cooled to using a demonstrative nuclear weapon in a European emergency to signal resolve to the Russians. He denied NATO accepted such shots and noted the alliance, while successful, should focus on readiness and modernization rather than force increases.
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Washington
Clark M. Clifford
Defense
North Atlantic
Brussels
Clifford
NATO
Germany
U.S
United States
Europe
Nguyen van Thien
Paris
Budget Lags Slow War on Organized Crime
Washington officials say a 1961 Justice Department drive against La Cosa Nostra faces funding strain Asst Atty Gen Fred M Vinson Jr and Henry Peterson report federal task forces have made inroads In Detroit 65 indictments were returned and new groups plan moves Yet Congress funds remain inadequate hindering expansion of narcotics agents and U S attorneys as officials warn it could take a decade to bring the syndicate to heel and the fight sharpens internationally with Mafia activity shifting to England and Las Vegas under renewed pressure
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Washington
Justice Department
Vinson
Henry Peterson
la Coss. Nostra
Detroit
Elliot Ness
Robert F. Kennedy
Moe
Peterson
Congress
Department
U.S
England
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Havana
Las Vegas
Howard Hughes
la Cosa Nostra
Ramsey Clark
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Julie
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United
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